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Environmental Sciences
Japan
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
80
Citations
22525
World Ranking
968
National Ranking
11

Physics

D-Index
80
Citations
22527
World Ranking
3024
National Ranking
98

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Japan Leader Award

Overview

Toshifumi Mukai is a researcher affiliated with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency in Japan. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with specific contributions across global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, pollution, and atmospheric science.

Their research spans several key topics including marine and fisheries research, marine animal studies, microplastics and plastic pollution, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, fish ecology and management studies, recycling and waste management techniques, and semiconductor quantum structures and devices.

Among their recent publications are:

  • A multilevel dataset of microplastic abundance in the world's upper ocean and the Laurentian Great Lakes (2021) published in Microplastics and Nanoplastics
  • Abundance and potential sources of floating polystyrene foam macro- and microplastics around Japan (2024) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • The current state of marine debris on the seafloor in offshore area around Japan (2020) published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Timing of spring sea-ice retreat and summer seabird-prey associations in the northern Bering Sea (2020) published in Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
  • Broadband target strength of arabesque greenling, Pacific sand lance, and pointhead flounder (2023) published in ICES Journal of Marine Science

Mukai collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Naizheng Yan, Kohei Hasegawa, Yoshiaki Fukuda, Keiri Imai, and Kenichi Shimizu.

Their work has appeared in a range of scientific venues with multiple publications in The Journal of the Marine Acoustics Society of Japan, Journal of Marine Science and Technology, Fisheries Research, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, and Fisheries Science.

Best Publications

  • Fast Plasma Investigation for Magnetospheric Multiscale

    C. Pollock;T. Moore;A. Jacques;J. Burch

  • Structure and dynamics of magnetic reconnection for substorm onsets with Geotail observations

    T. Nagai;M. Fujimoto;Y. Saito;S. Machida

  • The Low Energy Particle (LEP) Experiment onboard the GEOTAIL Satellite

    T. Mukai;S. Machida;Y. Saito;M. Hirahara

  • Itokawa Dust Particles: A Direct Link Between S-Type Asteroids and Ordinary Chondrites

    Tomoki Nakamura;Takaaki Noguchi;Masahiko Tanaka;Michael E. Zolensky

  • Geotail observations of the Hall current system: Evidence of magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail

    T. Nagai;I. Shinohara;M. Fujimoto;M. Hoshino

  • Solar wind control of density and temperature in the near-Earth plasma sheet: WIND/GEOTAIL collaboration

    T. Terasawa;M. Fujimoto;T. Mukai;I. Shinohara

  • Three-Dimensional Structure of Hayabusa Samples: Origin and Evolution of Itokawa Regolith

    Akira Tsuchiyama;Masayuki Uesugi;Takashi Matsushima;Tatsuhiro Michikami

  • Geotail observations of magnetic flux ropes in the plasma sheet

    J. A. Slavin;R. P. Lepping;J. Gjerloev;D. H. Fairfield

  • Slow‐mode shocks in the magnetotail

    Yoshifumi Saito;Toshifumi Mukai;Toshio Terasawa;Atsuhiro Nishida

  • Earthward flow bursts, auroral streamers, and small expansions

    R. Nakamura;W. Baumjohann;R. Schödel;M. Brittnacher

  • Association between Geotail plasma flows and auroral poleward boundary intensifications observed by CANOPUS photometers

    L. R. Lyons;T. Nagai;G. T. Blanchard;J. C. Samson

  • Temporal structure of the fast convective flow in the plasma sheet: Comparison between observations and two-fluid simulations

    Shin-ichi Ohtani;Michael A. Shay;Toshifumi Mukai

  • Global simulation of the Geospace Environment Modeling substorm challenge event

    J. Raeder;R. L. McPherron;L. A. Frank;S. Kokubun

  • Multisatellite observations of rapid subauroral ion drifts (SAID)

    P. C. Anderson;D. L. Carpenter;K. Tsuruda;T. Mukai

  • Substorm dipolarization and recovery

    W. Baumjohann;M. Hesse;S. Kokubun;T. Mukai

  • Statistical analysis of the plasmoid evolution with Geotail observations

    A. Ieda;S. Machida;T. Mukai;Y. Saito

  • Plasma entry from the flanks of the near-Earth magnetotail: Geotail observations

    M. Fujimoto;T. Terasawa;T. Mukai;Y. Saito

  • Extended magnetic reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause from detection of bi-directional jets

    T. D. Phan;L. M. Kistler;B. Klecker;G. Haerendel

  • Single-spacecraft detection of rolled-up Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices at the flank magnetopause

    H. Hasegawa;M. Fujimoto;K. Takagi;Y. Saito

  • Comprehensive study of the magnetospheric response to a hot flow anomaly

    D. G. Sibeck;N. L. Borodkova;S. J. Schwartz;C. J. Owen

Frequent Co-Authors

Susumu Kokubun
Susumu Kokubun Nagoya University
Atsuhiro Nishida
Atsuhiro Nishida University of Tokyo
Tomoki Nakamura
Tomoki Nakamura Tohoku University
Takaaki Noguchi
Takaaki Noguchi Kyoto University
Akira Tsuchiyama
Akira Tsuchiyama Ritsumeikan University
Michael E. Zolensky
Michael E. Zolensky National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Tsugunobu Nagai
Tsugunobu Nagai Tokyo Institute of Technology
Keisuke Nagao
Keisuke Nagao University of Tokyo
Hiroshi Naraoka
Hiroshi Naraoka Kyushu University
Kan Liou
Kan Liou Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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